Longtime local favorites Charlie Wilson and Maze featuring Frankie Beverly are among the headliners named on Monday for the 51st annual Hampton Jazz Festival, which is scheduled for June 22-24 at the Hampton Coliseum. Wilson, who will headline the Friday night show, is making his seventh appearance...

A 26-year-old man is wanted in connection with a shooting incident that damaged two apartments in Newport News, police said. Officers responded to a report of gunshots fired in the 13200 block of Aqueduct Drive shortly after 5 p.m. March 16, according to police spokesman Harold Eley. There, police...

Newport News and Hampton fire crews work to extinguish a blaze the hit several units at the Century Plaza Apartments on Lassiter Dr. in Hampton Saturday March 17, 2018. No one was injured in the blaze.

Recently purchased by Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the old lumber yard will be demolished and turned turn it into a recreational area for families as part of the Choice Neighborhood program. Tuesday, March, 13, 2018.

Crime

Two businesses and a vehicle were damaged during a shooting in Newport News Sunday, police said. Officers were dispatched about 2 a.m. to two reports of gunshots heard near Mambo Bar & Grill at Newmarket West shopping center, at 6139 Jefferson Ave., and the nearby Super 8 hotel, according to police...

At this weekend’s gun show in Hampton, people looking to sell or buy a gun privately — not through a dealer with a federal firearms license — could do so legally, like they could at any other gun show in Virginia and most other states. Gun-control groups see this as a loophole that gives people...

A man who drove his truck the wrong direction on the interstate and hit an SUV head-on was charged with driving under the influence Sunday morning, according to Virginia State Police. Around 5:41 a.m., state police were called to investigate the crash near the Interstate 664 and 264 interchange...

Updated story 9:30 a.m. Monday: James Claggion IV, 18, of the 5000 block of Chestnut Avenue in Newport News succumbed to his injuries from a gunshot wound Friday night. His death has been ruled a homicide and there is no suspect information at this time. Newport News Police Department Master Police...

Politics

The Pamunkey Indian Tribe wants to venture into business, operating a destination resort with legal gaming and employing 4,000 full-time workers somewhere in eastern Virginia. The King William County-based tribe’s council has approved the idea and is looking for land for what it envisions as a...

For a Virginia legislator with a bright idea, the most dangerous moments come when subcommittees meet for the House of Delegates. Those are the panels, usually a group of seven to nine from the 22-member House committees, that do a first review of most legislation. Unless they decide to report...

Virginia elections officials are set to give voters clearer instructions on how to fill out ballots properly after a disputed election was decided by drawing a candidate's name from a bowl. WTOP-FM reports that the State Board of Elections is set to adopt new ballot requirements later this month....

Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the General Assembly on Tuesday to go into a special session next month to nail down a state budget — something lawmakers failed to do by the end of their regular session over the weekend. Northam signed a proclamation that called for lawmakers to convene on April 11,...

Schools

Christopher Newport University’s LifeLong Learning Society is hosting its 21st annual Gardening Symposium on Saturday. The group, which offers non-credit courses for members, is bringing in several guests to speak. This year’s theme is “Creative Gardening: Where Small Spaces Meet Nature at Large.”...

Students across the Peninsula area took home awards in the 2018 Tidewater Science and Engineering Fair held earlier this month at Old Dominion University. In categories ranging from animal sciences to physics and astronomy, dozens of winners were crowned for first, second and third places and honorable...

Longtime Hampton School Board member and community sports leader Linwood “Butch” Harper died Thursday of natural causes from various illnesses. He was 70. Harper, a native of Hampton, graduated from the all-black Phenix High School in 1965. He served in the United States Air Force from 1965-68...

A section of Heritage High School has been selected to house Huntington Middle School’s rising seventh and eighth graders next year, pending approval by the Newport News School Board. The school is set up into three two-story wings. The 12-classroom portion that would house the approximately 350...

Science

When a tornado warning blasts over radio and television stations Tuesday morning, take it seriously. But not literally — it’s only a drill. Virginia’s annual Tornado Preparedness Day alert is set for 9:45 a.m. and meant to remind folks that winds can churn up into monsters at a moment’s notice....

With every new mass shooting, with numbing regularity, the heated debate over how to prevent the next one typically gets boiled down to two issues: gun control or mental health. And, just as regularly, once the heat subsides and the rhetoric fades, there’s precious little to show for it. Even after...

An astronaut stands in the dark, in the distance, on a stark and alien landscape, surrounded by stars and swirling galaxies in the night sky and the bright trail of a rocket ship blasting off into space. It’s a striking digital image that began as a middle-school art assignment and just ended as...

Sea level rise is a given, but how much and how fast depends on much more than how quickly the seas are actually rising. Much also depends on local and regional dynamics, from groundwater extraction to shifts in tectonic plates to ocean currents and winds. In Hampton Roads, for instance, scientists...